DATED 1713, ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN EAGLESTONE

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A LARGE WROTHAM SLIPWARE TWO-HANDLED DATED AND INITIALED TYG
DATED 1713, ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN EAGLESTONE
With two double-loop handles with stud and dash-ornament, the dark brown ground with applied rectangular medallions of angels, oval medallions of flowers and fleur-de-lys, dated and initialed '1713/MB' in cream slip, a rectangular medallion with the initials 'IE' above the initials 'TG' between the handles all flanked by dot-ornament and applied flower-heads
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high

Provenance

The Clarke Collection.
Frank Partridge & Sons, Ltd., London.
The Price Collection; Sotheby's, London, 22 November 2000, lot 131.

Literature

A.J.B. Kiddell, 'Wrotham Slipware and the Wrotham Backyard', English Ceramic Circle Transactions, 1954, vol. III, pt. II, pp. 117-118, listed as 'MB Posset pot 1713 Frank Partridge Collection'. The author lists 26 similar examples dated between 1687 and 1721 inscribed with the anonymous potter's initials IE, now thought to be those of John Eaglestone.

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Lot Essay

An example of similar form and size, also dated 1713, from the Glaisher Collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum, bears the initials 'IE' and 'Wrotham'. It is believed that this latter example may have come from Ightham, near Wrotham in Kent. A hitherto unrecorded example dated 1711, bearing the same potter's initials and medallions, was sold Christie's, London, 19 November 1968, lot 12.

For further detailed discussions of this group of globular tygs and illustrations of two examples, both dated 1701 and initialled 'IE', see L.B. Grigsby, The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, vol. 1, London, cat. nos. S.53, S.54.

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